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[clan chieftain]

Did you see that on the news. 28 people injured. Imagine that lot coming at you. Its fortunate no one got killed. Cars were smashed everywhere with the front and backs ripped off them but the cabs were intact and the drivers just walked out of them.
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The Clan Chieftain

[Scotty]

I've gone round Daytona in a NASCAR racing car by taking the 'Richard Petty Experience' and the first thing I noticed was the safety wall ran right around the 'oval' track was about 6 feet in height, nearly 3 foot thick, topped with a wire mesh fence and is the proverbial meat grinder.

Whilst I'm surprised and saddened about the accident, that wall will disassemble a car in a heart-beat so in some ways I'm not surprised about the flying debris.

[Riley Blue]

I watched the race and the accident on TV. It was on the last lap within yards of the chequered flag and happened after the race had been red flagged about five laps from the end - which would have meant the end of the race in the UK. Instead, the cars just waited on the track and were restarted resulting in some appalling driving in the sprint to the finish. It's not surprising there was an accident!

[emmerson]

Deja vu. Le Mans, 1955

[Riley Blue]

Mercifully much less severe:

Le Mans 1955: Driver Pierre Levegh killed together with 83 spectators with 120 injured.

Daytona 2013: Driver walked away, 33 spectators injured of whom two are still hospitalised.

[Rick]